Mutulu Shakur, ringleader of the 1981 Brinks armored car robbery, has a hearing scheduled in April to consider his release from prison after serving thirty of his sixty-year sentence. Shakur was arrested and charged with murder for the deaths of two police officers, Sgt. Edward O’Grady and officer Waverly “Chipper” Brown, and one security officer, […]
Nyack Hospital has implemented a hospital-wide restricted visitation policy in response to Influenza being declared widespread by the New York State Commissioner of Health. In conjunction with Montefiore and surrounding hospitals, Nyack Hospital is implementing the policy in an effort to reduce the spread and exposure of flu to patients, visitors, staff and clinicians. Visitors […]
DA REPORT: CRIMINAL CONTEMPT Edwin Thezan, age 27, residing at 317 Roosevelt Avenue, Spring Valley, NY, was sentenced on January 27, 2016 before New York State Supreme Court Justice William A. Kelly to an indeterminate term of two to four years in state prison for the crime of criminal contempt in the first degree. District […]
FROM CLARKSTOWN PD On February 15, 2015 at approximately 4 p.m. the Clarkstown Police Department responded to the Spring Valley Rest Home on South Pascack Road in Nanuet for a report of flooding in the residence. Responding patrol officers observed the rest home’s fire sprinkler system water pipe had broken in the attic area, causing major flooding […]
Rockland Theatre Company presents “The Last Five Years,”  a musical written by Jason Robert Brown, featuring Damon Quattrocchi and Katie McSherry. The show, which premiered in Chicago in 2001 and then off-Broadway in 2002, is a story which explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein (Damon), a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt (Katie), a struggling actress. Brown […]
STATEMENT BY ASSEMBLYMAN JAMES SKOUFIS (D) “[On February 2] the state Assembly took a step toward providing meaningful tax relief for families in the Hudson Valley and throughout our state. Legislation I sponsored (A.9179) was announced to provide middle class New Yorkers who pay some of the highest taxes in the nation with an income […]